Floyd C. Covington was a civic leader in Los Angeles' African American community from the late 1920s through the 1970s. Through his work as the first Executive Director of the Los Angeles Urban League and his service in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Covington redefined social...Read more

2019 USC Libraries Scripter Award winner Peter Rock, Dean Catherine Quinlan, Leave No Trace producer Anne Harrison, and Scripter Selection Committee Chair Howard Rodman. (Photo: Sarah Golonka) The authors and screenwriters behind the film “Leave No Trace,” and the television miniseries “A Very...Read more

The USC Libraries have named the finalists for the 31 st -annual USC Libraries Scripter Award , which honors the year’s best film and television adaptations, as well as the works on which they are based. The finalist writers for film adaptation are, in alphabetical order by film title:...Read more

USC Libraries Special Collections recently published finding aids for three archival collections that are central to Los Angeles history: the Lawrence Lipton papers, William L. Pereira & Associates records, and Floyd C. Covington papers. Combined, these three collections comprise 200 linear...Read more

With generous funding from the NHPRC, the USC Libraries will digitize some 37,000 previously unseen photographs documenting the growth of Los Angeles in the 1930s and '40s.Read more